i understand this is a 16:9 film crammed into a 3:2 aspect ratio but i have tried rendering it to 16:9 from vegas and it makes the whole thing 16:9 not just the video part. let me try to state this so its easier to understand. the goal as you know is to have the video look the way it did on the dvd this means black bars on top and bottom but none on the sides. so step by step now. i created my script using gk as for cluttered that is the way gk makes it i have never made a script manually. i then load the avs script to virtualdub and render out to lagarith. at this point the forced film setting in dgindex has made 23.976 fps. the avi is 720x480 3:2. i then load the clip to vegas and have tried various dvd templates they are all 16:9. this is all testing phase now so i am rendering a 2 minute clip from vegas. no matter what 16:9 template i use the render has ended up as a 16:9 dar with a 3:2 picture in it. at what point do the flags come in? where are these in vegas? i get that the dvd includes a flag to tell the player to display the 3:2 frame in 16:9. i just do not know how to add the flag back to a finished edit.i will be rendering the final edit out of vegas to mpeg2 for authoring with dvd architect. dark jedi said"let the encoder add the flags and the 16:9" does anyone know how to apply these flags? since vegas is my encoder for the edit that must mean vegas must apply the flags right? so i think thats the only thing i dont understand is the flag setting in vegas.